Georgina Blakeley
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University
Doing politics differently? Metro-mayors and democratic renewal
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 03 April 2018Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region metro-mayors have been in power just under a year, but has political diversity and participation changed?
The hard and soft powers of England’s new metro-mayors
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 03 January 2018Transport and homelessness show how Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram are using their formal and informal powers in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram: their first six months working with the combined authorities
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 08 November 2017Six months have passed since Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region elected metro-mayors. In this first of a series of three blogs we assess their progress so far
To gain legitimacy new metro-mayors must improve turnout and diversity
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 11 May 2017New metro-mayors must now deliver on their policy commitments, and quickly seek to secure the ‘democratic moment’ that advocates of devolution promised
Metro-mayor elections: a new type of second-order election?
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 04 May 2017As polls open a range of electoral features – personality, campaigning and voting systems – will tell us if voters see today’s elections as ‘second-order’
Metro-mayors: campaigning in poetry, governing in prose?
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 27 April 2017New metro-mayors will be elected in English city-regions on May 4th. Once elected the hard task of defining the new roles begins
The politics and political economy of Greater Manchester
Georgina Blakeley & Brendan Evans - 26 January 2016The 2014 Agreement may be flawed, but it is the latest step in a long journey to increase the city-region’s economic and political leverage